“Perfect Parenting, Part II; Or: Would a Roshanda by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet” is the sixth chapter of Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. This chapter leads off tells a story of four different people with names that are not typical. One child, named Temptress, was charged in family court. One named Loser who became a success in every sense of the word. A man, named Winner, has a criminal record longer than this paper I am writing.
To kill one’s self and purposely taking a life from another person are acts that come from unhappy people. Unfortunately, suicide and murder are very common topics not only in conversations but also in a lot of published literature. Jay Asher, the author of Thirteen Reasons Why, wrote a book about a girl who committed suicide and left tape recordings explaining the events that lead to her death. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky describes what can happen to a kid who posses suicidal or homicidal thoughts. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is about two cancer patients and their love story.
Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening are novels that represent the traps that society has set forth for them. In both novels, suicide is seen as the only way to escape from their constricted circumstances in which these people are expected to live in. The Frome’s and The Pontellier’s have very similar circumstances, such as blaming each other for their problems, and having marriage’s which they are not happy in. “Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.”
1. List five warning signs for each of the clients in the case studies (10 points) Case #1John 1. Sleep difficulties and increased agitation. 2. Lack of social activity.
Suicide happens frequently in this society because of people’s inability to express emotions and having to live in fear of backlash.
Growing up requires a high demand of endurance as life is filled with hardships and challenges. Thus in order to live through them, people must be as strong as the stress and anxiety which builds upon them. Both Donald M. Murray’s “What Football Taught Me” and Lisa Keiski’s “Suicide’s Forgotten Victims” demonstrate how to persist life challenges. Despite experiencing different forms of hardships that enable them to survive through their pain, Murray and Keiski transmit life lessons about individual growth. They emphasize survival through society, authority figures, and themselves.
Suicide in this society is connected as no person shows much concern for anyone who commits suicide as they have machines to filter blood and pump their stomachs to “bring them back from the dead” or resuscitate them from death. Therefore, giving further proof of lack of human connection as they showed a lack of concern as well. Though, some people showed signs of concerns. Concluding my argument, the themes of lack of human connection and censorship were the main themes of the book. Though, some could argue that it also included the dual nature of humankind.
The second leading death among young people ages 10 to 24 is suicide, according to The Trevor Project. Suicide is a real occurrence among people today, yet there are still major misconceptions about the topic. The most common are that individuals going through this struggle will not actually do it or if anyone that does try to is crazy. These misconceptions are still around in 2015. The Sorrows of Young Werther was written in 1774 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and talks about issues such as suicide and depression through the main character Werther.
In a journal titled “Suicidal Traits in Marilyn Monroe’s Fragments”, an LIWC analysis was conducted on every available piece of literature by Monroe. LIWC stands for Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and this analysis is developed by a computerized tool that is used for the study of suicide notes in which the use of negative/positive words, personal/third person pronouns, and various other linguistics that’s later compared to suicidal trends. For example, Monroe’s writing certainly indicate that she suffered from depression, “Our results showed a consistent use of high percentages of first-person singular pronouns and of low percentages of first-person plural pronouns, which is in line with previous studies linking this pattern with a sense of isolation and a low level of social integration… this sense of thwarted belongingness could be linked to suicidality,” (et al 2012). This analysis correlates with her psychological history of depression and anxiety. However, it is worth noting that suicide is related to clinical depression, but not every suicidal individual is depressed and not every depressed individual commits
In 1642, Sir Thomas Browne used the word of “suicide” in his Religio Medici. As a physician and a philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne created the word “suicide” based on the Latin sui (of oneself) and caedere (to kill; as cited in DeLeo, Bertolote, & Lester, 2002). The meaning has stayed consistent for centuries. Silverman et al. (2007a) posit that suicide and suicide-related behaviors as ways of coping with or responding to life circumstances. Suicide is seen as a driving force for individuals to purposefully move toward desired outcomes such as to end psychological or emotional pain and to change the future social milieu (Silverman, Berman, Sanddal, O’Carroll, & Joiner, 2007b).
The issue of suicide has been around for quite a long time since the Middle Ages. Suicide still continues, which hasn’t disappeared, in fact, it has increased over time because due to lack of effort of attending therapy and seeking the help they need to solve
There are 175 countries in the world right now (Countries). The United States is ranked 48th in suicides. An alarming total of 44,193 people commits suicide here, each year (List). It’s daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and coworkers taking their life. It’s everyday people taking their life.
Introduction: What is the problem? Recently, news about suicide cases on telephone and newspaper appeared frequently. 22 cases were reported since the first academic year last September 2015. The number of cases reached the annual average cases in last five years.
Over the years the issue of suicide has been slowly increasing. It is now the third leading cause of death among young people. The effects of suicide are tragic and felt long after the individual has taken their own life. Some people who consider suicide, however, never make a “serious” attempt at it. For every attempted suicide, there is said to be more than one person whose thought of suicide has never translated into an actual attempt.
The statistics about teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicide are startling. Every year, thousands of people succeed in taking their lives and even more have attempted suicide at some point in their lives. Although we have reached the stage that hearing about suicide is now common, it is was viewed as trivial and petty back then. It seems like a reverse spectrum
